Iconography

ARCHITECTURE

Germany / Augsburg / Dom / Marienkapelle / Dome - Seasons and lantern

MAGIC AND SCIENCE

Time / Seasons / Cycles / - Hans Georg Bergmüller and Francesco de Gabrieli (Augsburg, Dom, Marienkapelle, Seasons and Marian feasts)
Time / Seasons / Individual / Autumn

RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Old Testament / Canticles (A.V. Song of Songs) / Cant. 2:13: Sponsus: Ficus protulit grossos suos ... Surge, amica mea ... (Bridegroom: The fig tree hath put forth her green figs ... Arise, my love ...) / First part of verse: Ficus protulit grossos suos, vineae florentes dederunt odorem suum (The fig tree hath put forth her green figs: the vines in flower yield their sweet smell)
Virgin Mary / Life of the Virgin / Birth of the Virgin / Virgin being or about to be washed
Virgin Mary / Devotions to the Virgin Mary / Feasts of the Virgin Mary - Cycles / Augsburg, Dom, Marienkapelle (Johann Georg Bergmüller, 1721, Marian feasts in the Four Seasons)

Further details

Largely destroyed in World War II, reconstructed in 1987-1988 based on prints by Hieronymus Sperling in Bergmüller's 1723 Anthropometria

Artist or creator

Bergmüller, Johann Georg (1688-1762)

Date

1721

Location

Augsburg, Dom

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Denis A. Chevalley, Der Dom zu Augsburg (Die Kunstdenkmäler von Bayern, NS 1), Munich 1995, pp. 335-338

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Web resources

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (Copy in the Anthropometria)

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